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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1925
Page
12
The paper lists advertising rates and circulation zones for the Daily Telegraph Printing Co. Bluefield West Virginia. It notes AP news use, fiscal details, and mail terms, with a Tuesday January 20 1925 print date. Also describes charges for different time spans and zones.
A compact excerpt juxtaposes faith and mortal peril with reassurance. Isaiah’s divine pledge to uphold and strengthen contrasts with a fatalistic meditation on life as a transient, mortal pin. Shakespearean wisdom echoes through the meditation on immortality and fear.
The piece argues for fewer new laws and more repeal to reduce legal burdens. It cites North Dakota's new legislative spirit of minimal statutes and notes West Virginia risks a norm of constant enactment, treating the legislature as a factory or coal mine for mass output.
A Colorado tragedy claims a young woman’s life and a searcher dies in the snow. A companion suffers frozen extremities as 50 below zero weather tests climbers. The piece argues mountain climbing offers unmatched thrills and highlights global climbers’ dedication.
The Welch home of M M Day was destroyed by fire. Frank Buhanan died in Ashland West Virginia. A stray bullet killed John Litcher in Marytown. John Stuart, colored, was held. Ten years ago Rev T P Jimison opened a revival at Grace Methodist church. Court ordered liquor shipments from Virginia into West Virginia discontinued.
The piece notes many climbers and guides are killed on dangerous peaks and warns that extreme cold below zero makes ascent even riskier. It questions those drawn to thrills by peril, urging readers to consider the danger even as they are told to “climb on.”
A collage of business musings on advertising costs and per capita consumption. Examples include coffee ad spend versus cheap per person, and a soup producer turning to ads to boost sales while cutting costs. It also touches on Germany's chancellor candidate and the blend of youth, duty, and capability.
The poem by Wilbur Fisk Tillett from Vanderbilt University, printed in the Nashville Christian Advocate, reflects a 70th birthday creed praising labor learning and love as sources of lasting vitality. It envisions the afterlife as the Fatherland beyond where those who work study and love endure forever.
The article notes Welch aiming for reduced freight costs after Williamson's success, with Bluefield considering the same. It predicts early-year building activity, including homes and business houses, reflecting a robust winter trade and rising prosperity in the city. It also comments on the Dawes plan and debates about anticipated United States receipts.
Editorial discusses West Virginia tax growth since 1870 and compares it with population, noting heavy state costs and road spending. It analyzes debt levels from 1910 to 1924, income tax burdens, and disparities among counties, arguing for a classified property tax and equalization measures. It critiques the Gross Sales tax and advocates extending net income taxation to all enterprises.
An authoritative fact-finding summary argues for scientific revisions to state tax laws, including depletion and farm assessment at rental value, and supports creating a state equalization board as part of the reform agenda. The piece references excise tax on net income and cites Wheeling Intelligence as a source.
A discussion of governors as speed regulators in machines and thyroid glands in humans, detailing over and underdevelopment effects. A fictional mood governor with quotable prompts is described, plus a political scene where a woman proclaims sweeping the country and a husband reacts with weary acceptance.
Washington scene grows tense as a major fight over prohibition nears. The Scott divorce case exposes widespread alcohol use among lawmakers, splitting them into wets and drys. Leaders seek expulsions or impeachments, risking a national confrontation and potential collapse of enforcement. The outcome hinges on doubtful votes and political courage.
Mrs Mann of Anytown reads aloud a health fable on nosebleeds and home remedies. The passage lists head-back position pressing sides of the nose cold compressions and nibbling salt or alum. It also suggests pressing veins near the chin for bleeding control.
Washington dispatches show President Coolidge and nearly the entire cabinet backing a bill for cabinet ministers to speak and answer questions on the floor, signaling hope for budget reform. The piece contrasts this with Mussolini’s Italy and notes the push for constitutional flexibility through the child labor amendment ratification.
A collection of quirky vignettes and wry observations about daily life in New York Kentucky California and Denver. Jokes about burglars fashion auto shows Swiss cheese mice and wild women mix with playful anecdotes about marriages and social norms.
A fragment shows a playful exchange about leftovers and a policeman calling, with characters Norah mum and O'Brien discussing self control and Christmas cards. The dialogue hints at a humorous domestic scene and a line about insu:ns.
The column notes pithy sayings about cars and liberty. Quotes compare an automobile driver to the nut in a machine and criticize lost freedoms as bells ring in a changing era.
An old advertising column promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs as a simple nightly treatment to end coughing. It advises sipping a teaspoonful before bed and holding it in the throat, claiming double action to soothe irritation and loosen phlegm.
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